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Question of the day! Do you feel like you “get” social media, or do you just use it because that’s where all your friends and family are?

A little bit of both for me, peppered with other reasons.

I have a son and daughter who live in Australia. I exhausted every avenue I could to try to contact Matt and Kayla, short of hopping on a Qantas plane … because they don’t let you do that if you have no money -__-

At the time I was searching, social networks were springing up everywhere. I knew that they had a computer at home, and it was “hooked up” (as we used to say, back in the day) to the internet. So I joined every social network that I could find … MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo 360, Facebook … you name it, I had a profile there!

Eventually Kayla did find me on Facebook, but in the meantime I had become something of a social networking junkie. I had found relatives, old school and college friends, new avenues for business and people who were there just to lend an ear when I needed it.